We recently began using a new web based information warehousing application that utilized a large quantity of pop-ups to display particular units of information. As you can imagine, the calls came pouring in regarding how several buttons produced no visible data to the user. Further investigation led to show that the reason for this was because the Internet Explorer pop-up blocker was catching these windows. Luckily our friends at Microsoft provide an excellent GPO setting to allow pop-ups for this website in all computers in the domain.
To get this setup follow these steps:
- Open your preferred GPO editor and create a new GPO.
- Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
- Double click on the item named “Pop-Up Allow List”
- Enable the GPO
- Click “Show” to show a list of allowed sites
- Click “Add” to add a new site to the list.
- Accept all of your changes and apply the GPO.
One last important note is that when this GPO item is enabled it will override all user settings and not allow them to change or view the permanently allowed site list from the pop-up blocker options in Internet Explorer. They will still be able to temporarily allow pop-ups from sites, just not to add them permanently.
Hi. We did this way but it doesn’t work at IE11. what’s wrong?
not working for me too.
This doesn’t work, I had to :
Add Site to Trusted Sites in Group Policy By going to
User Settings -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Internet Control Panel -> Security Page. Double click on the Site to Zone Assignment
Add the URL and Zone as 2
User Settings -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Internet Control Panel -> Security Page -> Trusted Site Zone Double Click on Use Pop-Up Blocker
Change to disabled
Thank you. Just resolved a panic here. Internal web application. I just added internal domain with wildcard and boom! Pop-ups allowed.